Egypt said on Tuesday it was close to agreeing a lending programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to ease its funding gap and was seeking to secure $7 billion annually in financing over a three-year period.

Egypt's Illicit Gains Authority referred on Tuesday former minister of tourism Zuhair Garana and his family to court on charges of illicit gains.

Egypt’s former Foreign Minister rebuked the terrorist incident that targeted a French Church on Tuesday, describing it as a turning point in the activities adopted by the terrorist groups, Youm7 reported.

Egypt is keen on promoting cooperation with Pakistan and benefitting from that country’s military experience in fighting terrorism, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi told Pakistan’s army chief of staff General Raheel Sharif during his official two day visit to Cairo.

Russian flight safety experts may visit Egypt in September to inspect airport security in the country's airports, Russian transport minister Maksim Sokolov said Monday.

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) kept the pound stable at 8.78 per dollar at its weekly foreign currency auction on Tuesday, the state-owned MENA reported.

Tonight at the El-Manestirly Palace overlooking the El-Roda Nile Corniche, UNESCO will celebrate the Egyptian winner of "The Photo and Story" contest held in 2015 as part of the global #Unite4Heritage campaign.

Egypt’s Grand Mufti has said while homosexuality is not accepted in Islam, gay people are not second-class humans.

The United Nations Security Council failed on Saturday to condemn the violence and unrest in Turkey after Egypt objected to a statement that called on all parties to "respect the democratically elected government of Turkey," diplomats said.

The Egyptian parliament voted on Monday in favor of approving a new civil service law and will be referred to the State Council to be revised in constitutional and legislative terms, parliament speaker Ali Abdel-Al said.

With over 40 events spanning more than six weeks, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina's International Summer Festival will bring Egyptian, regional and international performers to the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.

Egypt will celebrate Eid Al-Adha, the second of two major religious holidays celebrated by Muslims around the world after Eid Al-Fitr, on 11 September, Egypt’s Astronomical and Geophysics Institute said on Tuesday.

Sudan's President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir said there is no discord between his country and Egypt regarding their respective shares of Nile water and that the relationship between the two countries is "excellent."

Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tariq Al-Mulla signed Tuesday two new agreements for oil and gas exploration in Upper Egypt’s El Baraka field of Aswan, Youm7 reported the Ministry’s statement.

Egyptian parliamentarians are signing a draft law criminalizes Armenian Genocide during the Ottoman Empire in Turkey. The Signature came in light of Egypt’s actions against Turkey as two countries have strained relations since the ouster of former President Morsi, Turkey’s ally.

Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said during an hour of questions in the Knesset that Egypt is the most important and serious ally we have in the Middle East and among Arab states.

Egypt's Aviation Minister Sherif Fathy and the country's public prosecutor Nabil Sadek flew to Moscow on Tuesday to provide Russian officials with the latest findings on Cairo's investigation into the crash of a Russian airliner in Sinai last October.

An explosion hit an armoured personnel carrier injuring three policemen in North Sinai's Arish on Monday, Ahram's Arabic news website reported.

Informed sources disclosed Monday that a five-member British parliamentary delegation will visit Egypt between 25 and 30 July to discuss a number of security and economic issues.

Egypt's presidential office denied rumors on Monday that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is not attending the Arab League summit in Mauritania this week due to a suspected assassination plot.

Arabs should work together to overcome intra-group conflicts and bolster Arabic unity to defeat terrorism and international interference in Arab domestic affairs, Egypt’s PM Sherif Ismail said in a speech on behalf of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in Mauritania’s capital Nouakchott.